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Peterborough Examiner

Peterborough County Warden Joe Taylor drew applause on Wednesday evening while speaking to a business crowd when he said the county is debt-free.Although it may not be true for much longer, Taylor said: County council is considering borrowing money to address what the warden called an "infrastructure deficit" - bridges and roads in need of repair,

Peterborough was soaked with 38.4 millimetres of rain between noon Monday and Wednesday afternoon, according to Environment Canada, causing some localized flooding that closed sections of many roads in the county and even swamped St. Peter's Cemetery while overtaxing the city's wastewater treatment plant.

Brant was spared the major flooding
that forced an evacuation of parts of
Brantford but county public works
crews were on the road to trouble
spots in the wee hours of Wednesday
morning after being notified of an ice
jam break farther to the north on the
Grand River.

Community Living Trent Highlands has received close to $1.2 million to increase safe and secure living spaces for individuals with developmental and physical disabilities.
The recently announced funding, about $500,000 of which is earmarked for t

Some people like to spend months, or even years, planning a wedding. But for many people, that kind of length of time isn’t practical, and it takes too long. If you’re someone who’s recently engaged, and would like to get married in six months or less, more power to you. It’s actually easier than you think to plan a “quickie” wedding. Look at Megan Markle and Prince Harry.

Peterborough This Week - Crime

Jamie Schmale, MP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, is reminding residents to be on the lookout for possible tax fraud schemes this tax season.
"Recently, my office has received numerous calls from individuals who were scammed out of their priv

Kawartha Lakes Police responded to a suspicious fire early Monday (Feb. 21) morning in a parking lot on St. Peter Street in Lindsay.
Officers say upon arrival they discovered two vehicles, a 2002 Yamaha motorcycle and a 2005 white Chevrolet pick-

A 25-year-old Cavan resident is facing impaired driving and possession of marijuana charges following a traffic stop.
Shortly after 1 a.m. on Thursday (Feb. 15), Peterborough Police Service say an officer on patrol in the area of Murray and Aylm

A 49-year-old Peterborough resident is facing charges including impaired driving following a Friday night (Feb. 16) traffic stop.
At approximately 8:45 p.m. on Friday, Peterborough Police Service report that an officer on patrol in the area of Ch

A sentencing hearing for the teenager convicted of setting the fire at an Oakwood foster home that killed two people and injured another last year has been adjourned to next month.
The 18-year-old was scheduled to appear at a hearing in Cobourg co

The deputy chief of police in Port Hope says that people in the municipality are not being “defrauded left, right and centre,” as a recent report on the most dangerous places to live in Canada suggests.

NORTHUMBERLAND — The OPP in Northumberland County dealt with 129 incidents this past weekend, including responding to 11 motor vehicle collisions on Feb. 10 — nine of which occurred on Highway 401 due in large part to weather and road conditions.

COBOURG — On Dec. 19 the Cobourg Police Service began an investigation into an assault involving two suspects who kicked and punched the victim who sustained a broken cheek bone, orbital fracture and retina tear in the left eye and a retina hole in the right eye.

Stirling Community Press

Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation
and Wounded Warriors Canada have
skated away with more than $70,000,
thanks to the seventh annual Pond
Hockey Classic.The amount raised was
announced Tuesday morning in Batawa
where officials held a press
conference outlining the annual event
and its achievement this year.“We
surpassed most of our expectations,”

A Belleville woman has been sentenced to time
served after pleading guilty to dangerous driving
and assaulting a peace officer.Shelby Zielski-
Thibault, 19, received her sentence Wednesday in
Belleville court.The charges resulted from a dispute
in the fall of 2016, said Mike Pretsell, Zielski-
Thibault’s Belleville lawyer.“She got in an argument
with

Council isn’t letting Sidney Ward’s
seat at the table get too cold.On
Tuesday council members voted to
declare the seat recently held by Rob
MacIntosh vacant and put forward Gary
Quinn as the most likely
successor.MacIntosh resigned from his
role as city councillor in Quinte West
last week in order to accept the
position of assistant manager of mar

CBC.ca

Jaspal Atwal, a convicted former member of an illegal Sikh separatist group, was invited to dine with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a formal event hosted by the Canadian High Commissioner Thursday in Delhi.

More than two years after the election of a federal government that says it wants scientists to speak freely, more than half of federal scientists responding to a new poll say they still don’t feel they can.

You're probably reaching for them when you have a headache or when that old knee injury flares up. But over-the-counter pain relievers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen may be affecting your thoughts and emotions, too.

Globe and Mail

One of thousands of people forced from their homes due to flooding in Brantford, Ont., thanked first responders for keeping things “under control.” Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne came to the city on Wednesday.

A London man who admitted he helped lead a lucrative illegal sports gambling scheme that grossed more than $100 million in five years was jailed two years and fined $3 million on Wednesday. Justice John McMahon said David Hair, 50, “was a leading member of the upper-echelon management group” of Platinum Sports Book, “an illegal […]

Two weeks after Toronto District School Board trustees let their colleague, Sheila Cary-Meagher, take a paid leave following her controversial “dyke” comments, they’ve finally been forced out of the closet. The person to whom the 30-year trustee directed her invective last fall — using slurs like “dyke” and “bitch” several times — was me. According […]

It was nice to see Chief Mark Saunders smiling and happy. Raising $413,569 at the Chief’s Gala on Nov. 23 will bring that out in the guy with the toughest job in the city. “It was a record amount,” said an equally jovial Brian Moniz, who is a parking operations supervisor by day and the […]

You’re invited to a funeral. On Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 11 a.m., four infants will be buried at Elgin Mills Cemetery in Richmond Hill. These are babies who would otherwise have been placed in an unmarked pauper’s grave. The children have been given names, which will be etched on a special granite marker. They will […]

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